Trump suspends entry of immigrants who cannot pay for healthcare

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[–]HeyImSancho 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think it's great. The homeless panhandlers are being run by gangs; a lot of the times those gangs are Latino gangs from south of the border, but here now; like MS-13. You can find stories of the homeless being burned alive for non compliance.

Aside from that, I've got contacts south of the border. I guess Trump got it passed to where refugee's could only seek asylum from the country next to them. So no more Central American's supposedly; Mexico is helping enforce this.

However, I guess the caveat to that, is unlimited asylum seekers from Mexico can come in. My contact, who's in a heavy cartel area, said their pueblo is almost deserted, and that there are others near where they are, that are 100% deserted, and that they're all waiting for entrance into the US; the lines are 2 weeks long at the border.

The good thing there though, is now it's not easy for them to come in, the word is that they must wear GPS tracking, and have a place to go; meaning family must take them in. Also, they're being informed that they will get no freebies, no welfare, and that this is strictly for refugees plagued by cartel violence.

That's all I've got, and it came from word of mouth in Ole Mexico.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It's an odd way of doing things but ¯_(ツ)_/¯.You can not have a welfare state and unlimited/unchecked immigration. It's a recipe for disaster.

[–]NuttinBuddaHoundDawg 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Where on the Statue Of Liberty does it say "Means to Pay" ??

I mean obviously those without means are among ppl who need legit asylum; However the world has gotten smaller thanks to the Internet, and does that mean all 3rd world citizens shall now come to America? Speaking as an American citizen there must be reasonable limits.

[–]idkwhatimseeking 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

I'm just curious.. Do you agree with this decision, or are you against it? Why or why not? I'm personally ignorant on the matter and wouldn't have an opinion to give. I would just like to ponder on it.. ya know?

[–]magnora7[S] 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Off the cuff, I personally think it's an odd way to limit immigration, but I think it's somewhat reasonable. I don't hate it or love it, but it seems reasonable in many ways.

[–]idkwhatimseeking 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Good answer. I definitely see what you mean. Not only does it serve to limit immigration, but I think it also helps the economy in the long run, perhaps. Definitely an odd ball way to go about it though. I guess we will have to see how it plays out.

[–]James_Kuhn3rd 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It's basically wac-a-mole.

The dems attack any policy that he puts forward. He then has his staff look into another method of doing the same task by other means/loopholes.

It's kabuki theater really. Congress has not only the power to change and construct proper immigration and legislation, it is constitutionally tasked with this duty. But in the past 40 or 50 years, as our country has grown to see the president as some type of king wielding the powers of the administrative state, it has yielded to that office, which is unfortunate..

It's largely the same in many other facets of government. I just read an article about how the IRS is auditing the lowest tax brackets at an equal or greater rate than it does top earners. The article, like the IRS, made the case that the legislative branch has gutted funding for it for over 10 years. The obvious agenda by the agency and the media outlets are to increase the power and money to these administrative branches. It's telling that the media outlet reporting on it looks at this as a problem of Republican's funding (or lack thereof) this agency.

I'm not sure why they ( well actually I know why) don't suggest another, better method, say like institute tax reform, such as a flat or fair tax and abolishing the need for an IRS.

That's a pipe dream now though. With a majority of the country moving toward socialism and anti capitalist policies, any Idea of reforming or eliminating an administrative agency will fall on deaf ears and is completely anathema to the plan. The most one can hope for is good state legislation wrt taxation.

[–]EndlessSunflowers 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (30 children)

C.R.E.A.M. - in modern day immoral u.s. of a. you have to pay for everything you do (I've even seen benches that you need to pay to sit on, no lie) no matter what you want to do in your life, someone is trying to make money off it. of course these short sighted greedy fucks want everyone to buy into their bogus "health"-"care" racket

[–]HeyImSancho 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I don't know how to break it to you, and perhaps you're aware, or not(don't know), but I'm fairly well traveled out of the country, and there just aren't too many places that aren't pay to play. Pay to play is a global issue.

[–]idkwhatimseeking 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

"Get da money"

[–]magnora7[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (27 children)

I wish we had a nationalized healthcare system like the UK, but healthcare is still very expensive

[–]idkwhatimseeking 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Honestly, I'd be willing to pay some extra taxes for this. I envy how Scandinavia and Denmark are ran. I'm hoping we could take note from them.

I also hope that we could figure out a way to fix the gap between the extreme wealthy and poor. I'm not saying that income should be equal, no.. but better dispersed than what it is. One could only dream.

[–]Undiscovered 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The issue is the USA has a top 5 population. Most countries with nationalized healthcare happen to be much much smaller. The bigger a program gets the more chance for bloat, waste and fraud.

Just look at the DOJ website. Trump has been going hard after doctors abusing Medicare and Medicaid. I feel as if state run healthcare may be better, with a federal oversight committee to ensure corruption is kept to a minimum.

[–]Jesus 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Why not both? Nationalized, i.e the basics and your primary, i.e a private healthcare company that IS NOT the only one in the state but competeing along dozens if not 50+ other ones. No bailouts, no monopolies or price fixing, etc. If this many compete in a state and are NOT allowed a taxpayer bailout this will obviously promote an good practice incentive. Competition will bring down prices tremendously.

If they do screw up up, let them die. Not the patients, the companies.

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    [–]magnora7[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (20 children)

    Yeah medical deaths are the #3 cause of death in the US. I think a nationalized system would be just fine. My interactions with the medical systems of the UK and Taiwan were great, just as good if not better than in the US. There's no reason we can't have simultaneous public and private options for the amount of taxes we pay. We already pay more than any other country per capita on healthcare, but our healthcare outcomes are ranked like 12th in the world. Why not learn from the examples of other countries that don't have a large portion of their citizenry trapped in medical bankruptcy (65% of which HAD healthcare insurance)

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      [–]magnora7[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (18 children)

      Oh I'm not saying nationalized healthcare is perfect, but in the US we literally have millions of people living on the street because they can't afford cancer treatments.

      Here's more info about medical errors being the #3 cause of death in the USA: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/05/03/476636183/death-certificates-undercount-toll-of-medical-errors

      Consider how overworked and under-rested most healthcare professionals are, and what their incentives are, and it's little wonder we get the outcomes we do.

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        [–]magnora7[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (8 children)

        I don't see why another competitor in a supposedly free market can be seen as a bad thing. Especially if that's what the the public wants to do with their tax dollars (rather than bomb the middle east) and it's a proven model that works very well in many developed countries. Plus we already have Medicaid and medicare, it's just an expansion of that

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          [–]magnora7[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

          I have used it an experienced it, for over a year at a time, and I preferred it to the US system every time.

          VA hospitals are bad, I will agree, but that's veteran care, not socialized medicine. So your complaint isn't that the socialized medicine doesn't work, but rather that the US government is too incompetent (or overtaken) to implement it, which I might agree with.

          [–]magnora7[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

          Also if you read the article it says this about the CDC measuring these stats:

          But no one knows the exact toll taken by medical errors. In significant part, that's because the coding system used by CDC to record death certificate data doesn't capture things like communication breakdowns, diagnostic errors and poor judgment that cost lives, the study says.

          So there is no CDC list for this because the CDC deliberately doesn't pay attention to these things. Which in itself is concerning.

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            [–]magnora7[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

            No I just literally told you that the CDC does not measure or record medical error as a category of investigation.

            Similar to how the FBI doesn't record killings in the US by police, even though it obviously should. It's protecting the industry it represents, just like the CDC

            [–]Jesus 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

            The CDC has been caught botching statistics and lying about surveillance data, espeically when it comes to chronic disease. They are not trustworthy in the least bit. You also have to take i to account that a large portion of the homeless community have various chronic and neurodegenerative infections including babesiosis, bartonelliosis and neuroborreliosis. It is bad enough they can't get treatment, even worse that the diagnostic tests were falsified by the CDC for borreliosos, presently an epidemic in the US, and not easily curable once disseminated. Many homeless people have neuo infectious diseases which cause mental illness.

            The healthcare industry has to get this under wraps or it will blungen our economy as more and more people are denied treatment or cannot pay for treatment so are left impoverished or homeless.

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              [–]Jesus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

              Which is a big problem, and with oligopolies and monopolist control in health care industry it makes price fixing rampant. We need competition, with some regulations, preventing monopolies and bailouts.

              [–]Jesus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

              I have a friend who doesn't have insurance. Got in an accident had to be air lifted. Air lifts are ridiculously expensive even with insurance. I just want to say with the increase in neurodegenerative disorders, probably from infections and other enviromental factors between the ages of 18-35, this could seriously hurt the US economy. I'm seeing more and more sick kids today then I ever have, many of them not being able to pay for treatments or homeless because they have to pay for the treatments.

              [–]Jesus-Christ 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

              NHS is pretty shit where I'm from, maybe it's just my area but it can be an incredibly slow process especially if it's to do with mental health. My sister has been in and out of the hospital for most of her life and it wasn't until we went private did we get proper help. My mom's also a nurse and her hospital is super underfunded.

              [–]Reddit_sucks_dick 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

              Thank GOD. Finally we have a President that is keeping his campaign promises. We have millions of leaches here already, foreign and home-grown. They should be forced to work for food, preferably in the mines where they are out of sight.

              [–]Tarrock 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

              Lmao

              [–]Jesus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

              Wat?

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              [–]UglyBastard 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

              why did you tag me in this?

              [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

              ethnicel

              [–]UglyBastard 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

              i'm only half and i look white

              [–]Riceand420 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

              Same why the tag?

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              ethnicel